December 23, 2004
Fed up with Spam
You may not have realised this, but this site receives about 20+ spam comments per day. I have them automatically filtered out, so they don't hurt your little eyes with all of their promises of 0nl1ne P*ker and so on, but they've finally got to me. So, I will be initiating some new and draconian anti-spam measures. The first of these is to password protect the area required for comments - username: comments, password: comments which should be enough to fox the spambots. Sorry about this - I'll probably set up something better when I have time.
December 08, 2004
Rh- Impressions
A surprise (well, it surprised me anyway!) 3rd album of new music in 2004 (joining Never Stop Breathing and If Not Then Else) is Rh- Impressions, which was recorded over three afternoons in November 2004. All titles are first take pure improvisations (fluffed notes included) recorded with no preparation, planning or preconception.
The main instrument was a Yamaha C6 Disklavier, recorded with a matched pair of Avenson Audio reference microphones. These were often placed in unorthodox locations (e.g. inside guitars, or next to snare drums), to achieve some unconventional piano tones. On other occasions, the audio has undergone some post-processing, or doubling with samples. In order to retain the “first take, warts and all” spirit, there were no overdubs or edits. The album contains 26 improvisations (whose titles are potential baby names).
